May 2010
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“I do not believe in a culture clash. When I was young, I thought things had to...”
– - Marjane Satrapi [of Persepolis fame] || Interview (via derica)
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"Even though my family has no idea what the heck I...
—-sharon bridgforth. from today’s workshop “finding voice”
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[currently: 5/2010] someone(important) reviewed my...
hm.
i need to sit with this. it’s quite disturbing and yes, i need to sit with this.
it’s a fantastic week people! (sarcasm) will be in workshop all day tomorrow & friday.
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[father & son bonding: "you're so gay..."] 5/2010
on the S train from brooklyn i overheard the brief dialogue between a father and his son. the father wasn’t very much older than i am (mid-high 20’s) and the son must’ve been no older than 11 yrs. old. i was just departing from BK from an interestingly predominantly white queer/trans space where i felt uncomfortable as people would “let their racism show.”
over all,...
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[Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference ]
i cannot make it this year. was supposed to go with my boy, but i am in a workshop 2nd & 3rd with sharon bridgeforth . so i am shrugging with disappointment, but know i will be doing some queer artwork that’ll be nourishing too.
fireeyedboi:
thetranscender:
This is the biggest transgender specific conference that happens annually.
Your boy is going to it!
June 2-5, 2010
Check...
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[Endorse Trans Day of Action 2010]
this is what i do every year for PRIDE. queer/trans/gnc POCS like what!!
see: alp.org
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Endorse Trans Day of Action 2010
When: Friday, June 25, 2010 - 3:00pm Where: To Be Announced
Join the Growing List of Endorsers of Trans Day Of Action 2010
On June 25, 2010, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color and allies will take to the streets of...
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“If you’re privileged, if you’re the top dog with all the advantage, you’re...”
– Tim Wise
. :: fuckyeahradicalquotes ::
I love pretty much everything Tim Wise says.
} brave-slut:chaichangechaos:shakepaper :: .
(via resmc)
Anonymous asked: Just wanted to let you know I really look forward to your tumblr and reading it. :-) Totallyyyy have a political crush on you. Thanks for posting and keep it going!
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[2010 u.s. census: me]
*lady approaches as i play with my dog. dogdog is excessively drooling, common courtesy of course.*
lady: excuse me… you live here?
me: yes, yes i do. *dog lays down & pants.*
lady: what’s your birth date?
me: excuse me? why are you asking me questions? do you work for the census?
lady: yes, yes i work for the census.
me: can i see the form? *lady shows me the form*
me:...
deigybasdeo-deactivated20110409 asked: I have been following a few blogs and have been outraged by the same pictures being published over and over again. Skinny white folks, usually female bodied, usually young, usually hipster chic. It's nasty and makes me want to stop identitfying as queer altogether. If that is queer, I am clearly not. I love my belly, my brown skin, my eye wrinkles and scars, and by whatever definition,...
yourstruggle asked: hay! Thanks for following, I really like your tumblr! ALOT *_*
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[confession time: 2010]
#21:
according to tumblr, hot queers are almost always ultra-skinny and white. how tacky is that? booowwwiinnng (boooorrrring, in case you didn’t get that).
pssshhttt. not in my universe.
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more racism! [avatar the last air bender: white...
The Blog of Gene Luen Yang: The Last Airbender Movie
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[Girl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and New...
Girl on Girl Politics: Willow/Tara and
New Approaches to Media Fandom
by Judith L. Tabron
Unlike fan studies, Buffy studies are booming. There are three large books of interpretive essays and the online journal Slayage. And yet in none of these places do we find any treatment either of Tara’s death as a text to be interpreted or of the fan reaction to it. Books take years to...
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['Slave trade' would become 'Atlantic triangular...
control education, control the masses. this is whack on top of wickity, on top of white supremacy. in these white colonial euphemisms is the spread of institutional educational violence.
damnit texas.
———————- ‘Slave trade’ would become ‘Atlantic triangular trade’ under new proposals by CYNTHIA VEGA - WFAA Posted on May 20,...
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["kicking ass is comfort food": buffy as thirdwave...
“In this chapter I examine Buffy through the problematic of third wave feminism, situating the series as part of a larger cultural project that seeks to reconcile the political agenda of second wave feminism with the critique of white racial privilege articulated by women of color.”
——patricia pender, slayage online.
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*warning buffy/btvs fandom spam*
just warning you, you can’t say that i didn’t.
also expect geekified feminist theory/essay/blogs.
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[for today 5/2010]
to know me you’d learn i’ve spent most of my life in two places-
hotels & hospitals. i am now at the latter.
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[dinner today: 22, may 2010] foods
kare kare salad: baby bokchoy & baby spinach salad w/ shallots, roasted red peppers, roasted eggplant, chopped cucumbers, chopped carrots and topped with wakame seaweed. plus a ginger peanut and lime dressing. (bagoong on the side for me)
homemade sweet potato and parsnip chips with smoked paprika and black pepper.
homemade vegan chocolate ice cream & berries.
homemade sparkling...
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[colors don't have gender!] awww little one.
WIFE SWAP- wife makes a boy change color of his room! 3.) “Colors don’t have gender!” On Wife Swap, a woman who was raising “manly men” in her own home was swapped into a home where one of the little boys has a completely hot pink room, by his own choosing. During the week in which she got to impose her own rules onto this household insisted that the boy paint his...
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[confession time 2010]
#43:
i’m a bad gay. i don’t like a lot of homo-hop. i think it’s a lot of white queers co-opting an art form without very much skill and mismatching outfits. just sayin’ just sayin.’
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[why i am quiet: 5/2010]
written on May 15, 2008 It is on this day two years ago that I massaged her legs, arms, watched them buoy in mid-air like balloons, like containers filled to the brim. was this yesterday? i don’t agree with the flower industry, roses and tulips being grown in homelands like mine, chemicals caught in eyelashes and in people’s throats. the workers not being compensated for their...
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[note from. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha //...
“Pride Toronto just banned Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from marching. Stay tuned for breaking news and counter-action! What crap. And it’s not gonna work!”
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to...
— James Baldwin
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[Some days I feel my writing wants to break itself... →
Some days I feel my writing wants to break itself open. Speak in a language that maybe no “readership” can follow. What does it mean that the Chicana writer if she truly follows her own voice, she may depict a world so specific, so privately ours, so full of “foreign” language to the anglo reader,…
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HEY YOU! white boy stop it with your racist...
[preface: this was written about 4 years ago & is still pertinent today]
pretty lady from the philippines
“pretty lady from the philippines… sweeter to me than vanilla bean.” i *love* it when cisgender men in hip-hop or cis men of color or really anyone persists with stereotypes of one/many of my cultures. clearly, there are massive struggles in dialogue that i could...
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audre lorde project: (TODAY) BECAUSE LAUGHTER IS...
because laughter is sexy: event for LGBTQTSGNC PEOPLE OF COLOR
When: Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 6:30pm - 10:00pm Where: @ Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South (Manhattan) Accessible entrance and facilities availible
SUBWAY
R,W to 8th St. A,C,E or F,V to West 4th 1,2 to Christopher St.
Featuring Comic Micia Mosely Comic Roopa Singh
and Burlesque Performers afroTitty Chicava...
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"Anything that doesn’t dismember or kill you will...
this.
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“If our three friends can face the ultimate fear...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local Contacts: Tania Unzueta, (773) 387-3186 Adam Kuranishi, (773) 991-3816 National Contacts: Flavia de la Fuente (949) 910-6362 Juan Escalante (954) 397-3175 BREAKING NEWS: ICE Releases Undocumented Youth Leaders Detained at McCain’s Office Pushing for DREAM Act Press conference to be held in front Senator McCain’s office (407 W. Congress) in Tucson, Arizona at 2:00 PM...
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